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Terence Khoo
2-Dec-2005, 02:26 AM
Hi again,

I have got this problem which I am not sure is relevant to Dataflex 2.3b. My
Financial Management System (FMS) is dataflex based and there is a database
maintained on the name and details of the company such as company name,
address, tel no. etc and the name of this database is V50SUDAT.

The problem is that I would like to use this software to maintain the
accounts for another of my new subsidiary company, as such I have copied the
files to a new folder, intending to initialise them and to change the name
of the company in this database. I managed to change and save the name
successfully using VSREPORT but when I tried to launch FMS, it was prompted
on the screen that "improper system data file" and exits back to DOS. I
later discovered that under this V50SUDAT database, it also contains a
"Registration No" field for the name of the company. This unique
registration number has to collaborate to the name of the company. My
predicament is this, I have approached the company that sold this system to
us ages ago and they said that they no longer support this FMS and refused
help me. From our licensing agreement, since this system is maintained only
on 1 server, it can be registered under an unlimited amount of companies so
it is perfectly legal for me to maintain a new subsidiary in this FMS on the
same server.

The registration number is a ASCII field and is 32 characters long.

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks and sorry if this question might out of
context from Dataflex as I am not sure what to do now.